That's the best way I can describe it. for several weeks now, iTunes has been skipping, or popping, if you prefer. when I listen to music or audio streams, there are frequent pops in the sound. It's like an audio file that's been imported from a scratched CD, but I can verify with certainty that this happens on tracks that I know are fine. And this morning, it got so bad that I had to restart iTunes. Like it was all just one big string of static.

Has anyone ever had this happen? I have noticed lately that iTunes is running up some serious processor time, way more than I think an audio player should. See image for what iTunes requires to listen to WNYC.

But like I say, this popping manifests itself in ALL AUDIO that I play in iTunes. It's beginning to make me angry.

Trey,I can't explain your iTunes behavior on other tracks, but WNYC's feed is definitely borked. I am listening to it now, and it's doing exactly what you described, but otherwise my iTunes works perfectly.

p.s. what is it with that darned computer generated sponsor voice?!?

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Proves my point about over taxed severs - to narrow down a problem a simple reboot would shake some things out.

From what I understand it's not just streams. You both missed that he said,"when I listen to music or audio streams", I assume that means local files too, files on his HD, so it's not over taxed servers.

I had the same kind of thing happen yesterday, but I think the problem was in the interface between the laptop and AirTunes. When I sent the sound through the laptop speakers the skipping stopped, at any rate. Still, it's a pain that the AirTunes connection can't be reliable. I also had a problem with video output via iTunes. Video would just not play, period. I rebooted (thanks for the suggestion RB ) and everything was ok again. That was on the G% tower, by the way, not the laptop.

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